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Five leading scientists were ousted from the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) in New Orleans on Friday. Their crime: handing out copies of an editorial, published in the journal Diabetes Care on April 29, sharply criticizing the Trump administration’s ong

OpenAI announced a new feature that it says will provide additional protection from prompt injection attacks, where malicious chatbot instructions are hidden in webpages and other content sources. Among other things, Lockdown Mode will disable live web browsing (so you can only a

As Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, WWDC 2026, approaches, the excitement is building around what Apple has in store for us this year. From Siri’s overhaul to new Apple Intelligence updates, there’s a lot to look forward to. The annual Worldwide Developers Conference kick

Former tech executive and VC Sriram Krishnan is leaving the Trump administration at the end of June. “It is hard to express how big a privilege it has been to serve the American people and how grateful I am to have had the opportunity to do so,” Krishnan said in a post on X. “Fir

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AMD B650 expansion cards hit retail starting at $199 — add four M.2 PCIe 4.0 slots and 11 USB ports to any PC with a PCIe slot The Promontory 21 chip isn't locked to AMD CPUs in any way, so you can use it with anything. It's a weird fact of the modern PC industry, but the motherb

President Donald Trump said on Friday that he’s spoken to AI companies about striking deals “where the American people can benefit from the success of AI.” Trump does not seem to have mentioned specific companies in his comments, but OpenAI is a likely candidate, especially after

Gaming soundbar can be hijacked from over 16 yards away without touch or pairing — the company allegedly refuses to label the blatant security flaw a cybersecurity risk It accepts unsigned firmware over an unauthenticated Bluetooth link. Security researcher Rasmus Moorats has dem

Upgrade your PC with a 2TB PCIe 4.0 SSD, 750W power supply, and 240mm AIO for $300 — hardware bundle saves you nearly $200 A solid bunch of essentials. Despite the AI boom driving up prices and making it harder to build a PC today, there are still some good deals floating around.

$6000 semi-truck gaming rig just got a massive upgrade — cabin overhaul includes new racing bucket seat, pedals, and other accessories to level up their truck Conspit worked with the trucker to upgrade their semi-truck sim rig. ZanaZamora, the U.S.-based trucker who packs a power

A proposed $2 billion data center has become a political flashpoint in the small city of Shelbyville, Indiana. And the controversy has only grown more intense after the mayor, Scott Furgeson, was caught on camera saying of the “No Data Center” signs going up that, “I’ve seen a lo

While we are out building fun clusters, Gigabyte is doing something really interesting. It has a 40-node cluster with 320 cores 1.28TB of memory, 80x SSDs, and 40 (integrated) GPUs in a single 1U chassis. We encountered Gigabyte’s hardware on display at Computex 2026, and it is q

For years, our social media experiences have been dominated by Big Tech players like Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp), Google (YouTube), Snapchat, TikTok, and X. But a growing number of startups are taking aim at these giants by building new, often smaller and more personal s

The Floppy Disk patent was granted today in 1972 — when 80KB took up 8 inches and were really floppy By the 1990s, more than 5 billion floppy disks were sold annually; now, old and recycled stock is bought by a few niche users. The patent application for the floppy disk was grant

Facebook has long been filled with feeds of clickbait articles. Now, Meta is making its own clickbait articles with AI. Meta made its own AI-generated clickbait news feed Meta said it would pull the feature after The Verge asked questions about it. Meta said it would pull the fea

Prusa Research goes full spectrum in anticipation of INDX Open-source ColorMix is now available on Prusa Slicer and the EasyPrint mobile app. Prusa Research has announced a new open-source ColorMix engine for both PrusaSlicer and its web-based EasyPrint slicer, joining Snapmaker

Tom's Hardware Verdict The Gigabyte Z890 Aorus Elite Wifi7 Plus is a solid, budget-conscious gateway into Intel’s latest platform. You get blazing-fast networking, native Arrow Lake refresh support, and ample storage options. But a single Type-C port and a last-gen audio codec ke

Lexar regional manager says that RAM prices are expected to double by the end of the year — 'discounts' and stabilized prices result from distributors getting rid of old stock or sourcing products from other regions Don't get your hopes up. Lexar's Regional Manager for Australia

Taiwanese startup FormulaV Line wants to break into US market with two new unique cases — company expects products to become available on Newegg later this year Gamers and enthusiasts are getting new affordable options pretty soon. A new PC case brand is expected to arrive in Nor

G.Skill explains how AMD EXPO ULL unlocks additional performance — expanded profiles allow memory makers to include subtiming tweaks for the first time But more involved binning could mean more expensive memory, and X3D chips see less benefit AMD's EXPO Ultra Low Latency program,

Apple has been on its back foot, AI-wise, for the past few years. But in a strange way, playing from behind might not be such a bad move. Here comes new Siri again It’s time for a re-reintroduction. Here comes new Siri again It’s time for a re-reintroduction. At WWDC on Monday, A

Huawei-led team claims it post-trained DeepSeek's 1.6-trillion-parameter model — 1,000 Ascend 910C chips used in training The Shenzhen government says a 1,000-chip Ascend cluster handled full-parameter post-training. A research group that includes Huawei Technologies says it comp

Unreleased RTX 3050 Ti engineering sample appears in photos and benchmarks — the RTX 3060 alternative that never happened Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 30 series (codenamed Ampere) firmly established itself among the best graphics cards of its time. Interestingly, it seems that Nvidia may

Ötzi the Iceman, Europe’s most famous mummy, is crawling with microbes, some long dead, some still eking out a living after thousands of years, and some very modern. After he died in the Ötztal Alps, the Copper Age man now known as Ötzi lay alone and forgotten for 5,300 years, un

Finland deploys new system to detect threats to undersea cables — distributed acoustic sensors measure vibrations from the seabed and informs the authorities and operators of suspicious activities This tech allows undersea cables to act as sonar sensors. Elisa, a Finnish telecomm

Retro gaming enthusiast attempts loading games to Sega Genesis from a vinyl record player, recording game data as sound — Mega EverDrive Pro and Pi Pico 2 board not enough to overcome limitations of the turntable The project should have worked out but the toy-like turntable chose

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FILE Enterprises need unified NFS+SMB file services, and files and file servers will outlive us all Interview: B&F was contacted by Ned Pyler, CTO Enterprise Storage at Tuxera, who wanted to say that Network File Systems (NFS) has moved from a checkbox feature to a design decisio

Government action to ban social media platforms risks strengthening Big Tech's grip on the industry further, limiting access for smaller players, an exec at BlueSky has warned. Rose Wang, Bluesky's chief operating officer, told CNBC on the sidelines of SXSW in London on Wednesday

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